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8 die in Nuevo Laredo
 For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas state click here. By Chris Covert Rantburg.com A total of eight unidentified individuals were killed in fighting in Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas on Wednesday and Thursday, according to an official government news release. The Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE), or attorney general released a statement Thursday evening which said that in several encounters in the city five individuals were also detained and seven were wounded in firefights, including two unidentified Tamaulipas state ministerial police agents. At around 1822 hrs Wednesday, a gunfight took place between rival gangs near the intersection of calles Independencia and Comonfort in Viveros colony, where three unidentified men were found dead, two of them aboard a Volkswagen Jetta with a third nearby. The same evening five unidentified individuals were killed and five others were wounded in an intergang firefight on Calle Pedro J. Mendez. According to the news release one unidentified woman in her 60s was found dead at the scene. Later a man in his 40s, a woman in her 20s and a minor youth died while receiving medical attention. Thursday morning a police operation in a raid at a residence near the intersection of calle Bolivar and Riva Palacio in Juarez colony involving Tamaulipa state ministerial agents and local municipal police ended up with two unidentified ministerial agents wounded. A total of five suspects were detained. The Procuraduria report said that evening a number of shooting incidents took place in Nuevo Laredo, and both Mexican Army and Policia Federal troops began to intensify patrols in the city. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com Posted by: badanov 2013-03-08 |
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